[Tlc] TLC-new books

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Here are a few new books from U.Washington Press and Silkworm Books.
Thanks,
justin

1. Susan McCarthy, Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). (includes much material on Tai groups)

2. Irene Strengs, Worshipping the great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Middle Class (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009).

3. Chang Noi (pseudonym), Jungle Book: Thailand's Politics, Moral Panic, and Plunder, 1996-2008 (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).

4. Bertil Lintr and Michael Black, Merchants of Madness: The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).

5. Antoine van der Water and Liesbeth Sluiter, The Great Elephant Escape (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009). about elephants, tourism, and other issues in Thailand.

6. Alfons van der Kraan, Murder and Mayhem in Seventeeenth-Century Cambodia: Anthony van Diemen vs. King Ramadhipati I (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).

7. M.R. Nimitmongkol Navarat, David Smyth, trans., The Dreams of an Idealist (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).

8. Mayoury Ngaosrivathana and Pheuiphanh Ngaosrivathana, The Enduring Sacred Landscape of the Naga (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).

9. Grant Evans, The Last Century of Lao Royalty: A Documentary History (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009).


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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu